Three sisters.
Three men.
One mother with her own crazy backstory of having been a nun, a wife, a mother.
The paperchairs theater of Austin performed "Plano" by Will Arbery in Sept. 2019 at the Ground Floor Theater. The set design, by Lisa Laratta, was a terrific cube of a house and front porch, projecting like a dangerous missile on an angle toward the audience. The set, like the lives and psyches of the three women on the front porch, frozen in a moment of careening speed as the characters fly through rapid-fire language, confusion and distress. The daughters each embody and elaborate the types of the mother: nun, wife, mother. Each daughter, in turn, defined by the disappointing relationships they have with men. All of this from a show with many moments of humor and delightful surprises, washing over the audience like a bucket of cold spring water.
A fabulous show, beautifully acted, challenging and thought provoking; and all of it set in an American heartland: somewhere near Plano.
Paperchairs actors
Anne: Heather Hanna
Genevieve: Hannah Kenah
Isabel: Elizabeth Doss
Mary: Janelle Buchanan
Steve: Josh Meyer
John/Juan: Harold Fisch
Faceless Ghost: Matt Hislope
Review of the play as performed in NYC recently by Clubbed Thumb:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/theater/review-the-women-of-plano-are-all-about-men.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
